[Eril-l] Comparative reviews of current newspaper databases

[Linda Wobbe]

Hi Melissa,

Let me put a plug in for EDS.  We have Newsbank Access World News newspaper
content available through EDS.  We use a custom link to the Newsbank
content, and it works quite well for us.  The "News" filter also retrieves
results from Academic OneFile from NYTimes, and other papers.

...Linda

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Sandra Wong <swongj at sfu.ca> wrote:

> Hi Melissa,
>
> Summon does index newspapers rather well (PQ has more or less cornered the
> market on newspaper databases!).
>
> Initially, when we picked up Summon back in 2010, in it's initial
> interface, newspaper results overwhelmed search results - librarians were
> really not happy with that. So we used their API to parse out the newspaper
> results under our banner of "Library Search" which is on top of the Summon
> discovery service . Library Search searches a whole bunch of different
> silos (ejournal titles, database titles), library website, course reserves,
> IR, in addition to Summon results using the Summon APIs.
>
> You should be able to see it on our home page under Library Search.
> Newspaper results appear on the bottom left hand corner. You shouldn't need
> to login to do a search. http://www.lib.sfu.ca/
>
> To go to Summon directly, change the default search to Fast Search -
> that's what we're calling our Summon service.
>
> In addition, since the change to the Summon 2.0 interface, newspaper
> results are now a link at the place where the first newspaper result would
> have appeared in the results list.  So instead of a citation to a newspaper
> article, you get a link... "News results for....your search terms".
>
> Hope that helps.  Sorry Helen, I have no recommendations for comparisons
> of newspaper databases - we have Canadian Newsstand and PressDisplay (both
> Proquest) and Factiva and Lexis Nexis both.   I'm pretty certain that usage
> of Lexis has been declining over the last several years though.
>
> Sandra.
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Melissa Belvadi" <mbelvadi at upei.ca>
> *To: *"Helen Aiello" <haiello at wesleyan.edu>
> *Cc: *eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Sent: *Wednesday, 16 December, 2015 13:31:49
> *Subject: *Re: [Eril-l] Comparative reviews of current newspaper databases
>
> Do you have a discovery service? I have heard, but not been able to verify
> for myself, that Proquest's Summon system is very good at searching
> newspapers, and you could probably configure a profile or custom link or
> such that limited the search to newspapers. I'd actually like to hear from
> Summon customers whether this is in fact true.
>
> Melissa Belvadi
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Aiello, Helen <haiello at wesleyan.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone lead me to a recent article that may have done a comparative
>> review(s) of current newspaper access databases?
>>
>>
>>
>> I am not looking for individual newspaper titles (such as Gale or
>> ProQuest newspapers) nor historical newspaper database (such as Readex
>> products) but db such as
>>
>> Newsbanks Access world news or ProQuest’s International newspapers or BBC
>> Monitoring.
>>
>>
>>
>> Access to current newspapers through factiva or Lexis Nexis seems to
>> confound undergraduate users so we are considering, and investigating,
>> whether offering a newspaper centric only resource might be a better path
>> of access.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your help on this….
>>
>>
>> Helen
>>
>>
>>
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>> Wesleyan University Library
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